When I saw “odd mine in the Nevada desert” and the video opened with us following a man in full military tactical gear, I thought, ‘oh lord, how’d he get clearance to explore an abandoned DARPA underground project ??”
It's amazing! These miners had to be electricians, welders, mechanics, blacksmiths, framers, roofers, hunters..... I could keep going and going, the list growing ever longer. Wow! What a way to live! Today, a lot of people don't even know how to change a flat tire. These miners were truly individualists.
There are still small mines like this working across the western US. You nailed it - we have to do a little bit of everything. There's no other line of work I'd rather be in.
Peshmerga....respect. Super cool site and explore! That Bud can stuck in the clay of the slickenside was a unique find, it being from the '70s I wonder how long it's been hanging there.
A gold star for you! You're the first one to correctly identify the location/military force in the intro... I have to think that that beer can has been there since the 1970s.
Did you notice the slide rails at 2:27? Looks like the crew in the 70s/80s were mucking out the old adit with a 12B or similar and advancing new rail while doing walking rehab. 22:53 is a Detroit 2-71 two-stroke diesel. The Series 71 valve cover screws are very distinctive.
Chris Schramm founded the business in 1900 in Australia, producing engine powered mining equipment with distributorship in the US. In recent years the Schramm Company has been acquired a couple of times but it is still in business. Maybe you can get parts for that compressor.
It's a Detroit, it would more than likely start if the exhaust and blower were reasonably protected. They're up there with Deutz 912s for rock-solid mechanical diesels.
Schramm is still around, they build mobile (track and truck) drill rigs. Hauled a lot of them for the major drilling companies in north eastern Nevada.
Amazing video as always. On those old magazine wall hangings, there was a date on the clipping above the cowboy scene. It was on the top right. It says March something but I can't make out the rest.
I really appreciate your videos. As, I am a production machine operator. I cut raw copper, bronze, aluminum, etc... I have always had a love for things like this and your information brings it all together. Thank you! 🙂
I must say, I find myself watching other mine explorers and thinking. They should watch TVR exploreing mines so they can learn how to do a real exploration that covers everything. Alway look forward to seeing a new mine post. Great work!!!!
Thank you for the Video and the view in the past. I imagine how life was in that cabins and under that circumstances. A hard life with much hard work. Always the hope to get rich in mind. But i thing the miners never get rich. Greetings and i hope you were save from the Storm. Yours Frank Galetzka
The camera depicted in the Lord Calvert ad is probably from the fifties, although I can't ID it specifically. That may date the ad, or it was chosen strictly as a prop. The dress style of the man in the ad would seem to be about the same time period.
The writing on the clay wall seems like it was done days ago and not As far as the 70's and 80's and I wonder if that beer can has been stuck to the wall since the 70's or 80's as well
Lovely bit of exploring there, glad you got to document most of the working above and below! Could hear you're voice change in the last video, sounded exhausted to say the least, how far was the hike to get there?
Guess the nice stuff is still hidden inside first few tunnels but outside was very interesting, very nice old engines wow ,the rest of the mines were caved so time too hit the sack. Or did you have too walk back all the way?
the cut to night at 26:30 was so unusual in that you don't normally film outside at night, that when you turned on your flashlight, I thought "wow, this guy's good, he brought a really nice flashlight for night time!" ... DERP Just don't get to see the beam outside much so my brain error 404'ed
The oblong nameplate under the pressure gauge on that Schramm compressor said International Harvester. I wonder if they only supplied the clutch assembly or other engine parts. The radiator grille showed definite IH design overtones.
Scaramm & Maerky! 👀 that would make a comfortable fit in my engine collection! 😁😁 Great job guy's. I missed the insignia on your right upper arm? May I ask what that was?
There was a date on the picture of the building above the "cowboy scene" in the cabin at the end. It said Saturday Evening post, I think March. I couldn't make out the day and year on UA-cam, but maybe your original footage will show it clearer.
Still can't figure out how they decided/knew where to go/dig into the mountain to find what they were looking for. I get a lot of it is finding a vein and following. But some of it looks like"let's dig in and see if we can find it" kind of scenario
Not often by digging just anywhere. They sometimes found mineralized outcroppings at the surface, or exposed weathered veins. Fault gouge zones, etc. Quartz streamers in bedrock. I see them at the river in smoothly eroded bedrock all the time. They also found quartz "float" chunks which would work it's way down from higher up the mountain due to erosion. Broken off chunks in skree slopes, gulches or creeks, etc. Could be any mineral... not just quartz. Was a good indicator of possible gold nearby with it. There's also some plants that like to grow in heavily mineralized soil.
I totally enjoy your videos !! Would it be possible for you to identify to us what kind of minerals you see instead of saying, obviously mineralization ??
When the ground got really bad you said there was a lot of sparkles and you do not know if the camera was picking it up well it picked up quite a bit of it just wanted you to know
If you pause it the flag is Red White Green with a Yellow Sun center, so kurdish flag. USA special forces have worn this flag before and it pissed Turkey off so they dont really do it anymore. Suppose you can get away with it though if you work near groom lake and usually arent on video camera lol.
😂😂😂 I got a kick outta "compressor is technically an engine ". Kinda true though, but I think most mechanics would tell you that it’s the other way round. An engine is basically a compressor. 😂😂😂 "only neck deep"😂😂😂
Many of the early portable compressors were an inline six cylinder engine in which three of the cylinders were powered, and the other three were for compression. Some were on truck chassis and you could drive them around.
@@kylerayk The weirdest ones were LeRoi Tractairs. As the name would suggest, they're tractors with two of the six cylinders used to produce compressed air. I accidentally found one outside Hillsboro, New Mexico several years ago while trying to buy a Wagner LHD. That entire lot of equipment was junk that had been stripped for parts 30 years ago, I left empty-handed but with some cool pictures.
are you doing a mine survey for someone in that country, With some work that mine could be working with not much work it seems. Mainly rock fall and water build up that covering really good rails with also an air compressor engine and tanks that should be good with abit of maintenance. escort guy flag looks like Kurdistan mainly or Tajikistan. definitely not Nevada
Sorry but why so much rat pee and droppings? Like what would they be eating? Not hard to tell I’ve never been in a mine plus I live in Alberta, Canada which is rat free!
Watching a TVR mine video is more fun and interesting than watching a hurricane. Nice video introduction, you’re a pro at this.
When I saw “odd mine in the Nevada desert” and the video opened with us following a man in full military tactical gear, I thought, ‘oh lord, how’d he get clearance to explore an abandoned DARPA underground project ??”
It's amazing! These miners had to be electricians, welders, mechanics, blacksmiths, framers, roofers, hunters..... I could keep going and going, the list growing ever longer. Wow! What a way to live! Today, a lot of people don't even know how to change a flat tire. These miners were truly individualists.
There are still small mines like this working across the western US. You nailed it - we have to do a little bit of everything. There's no other line of work I'd rather be in.
That big Generator would probably fire right up with some fuel, battery power and starting fluid.
Amazing condition ❤
Peshmerga....respect. Super cool site and explore! That Bud can stuck in the clay of the slickenside was a unique find, it being from the '70s I wonder how long it's been hanging there.
A gold star for you! You're the first one to correctly identify the location/military force in the intro...
I have to think that that beer can has been there since the 1970s.
Nice you got an escort to the mine
Did you notice the slide rails at 2:27? Looks like the crew in the 70s/80s were mucking out the old adit with a 12B or similar and advancing new rail while doing walking rehab.
22:53 is a Detroit 2-71 two-stroke diesel. The Series 71 valve cover screws are very distinctive.
Good catch! I missed the slide rails...
Thank you for identifying the Series 71.
Thanks!
Schramm & Maerky Machine shop built the first gas powered engine in the USA, and Made the first Air Compressor that was "portable" in 1908.
It will probably start right up
Chris Schramm founded the business in 1900 in Australia, producing engine powered mining equipment with distributorship in the US. In recent years the Schramm Company has been acquired a couple of times but it is still in business. Maybe you can get parts for that compressor.
That's one way to deal with them pesky claim jumpers! 😆
The Detroit 2 cylinder generator looked in really good shape. You guys find the neatest stuff.
It's a Detroit, it would more than likely start if the exhaust and blower were reasonably protected. They're up there with Deutz 912s for rock-solid mechanical diesels.
@19:11 you're looking up the stope and there appears to be light coming in up there that's not from your flashlight. I wonder if that daylighted.
Schramm is still around, they build mobile (track and truck) drill rigs. Hauled a lot of them for the major drilling companies in north eastern Nevada.
Amazing video as always. On those old magazine wall hangings, there was a date on the clipping above the cowboy scene. It was on the top right. It says March something but I can't make out the rest.
A guano mine. Sparkly guano.
Thank you for taking us along!
Given your escort along the fence by a guy in full battle-rattle, you checking out mines above Groom Lake AFB?
That must be why the site has not been trashed.
Dude's shoulder patch was the Kurdish flag. I'm assuming it was spliced in as a joke.
@@CaalamusTube - that actually makes more sense - buddy of mine was arny SF & worked on training Kurdish fighters
I really appreciate your videos. As, I am a production machine operator. I cut raw copper, bronze, aluminum, etc... I have always had a love for things like this and your information brings it all together. Thank you! 🙂
Great job guys. Loved the Call of Duty intro.😀
Loved the woodwork at the begining!
28:17 Berkshire's City Lights the stocking colors " for Fall '47 " .
Schramm build drill rigs, i used to operate WS450/WS685 and a little AC rig our WSs rigs were set up for mineral RC here in Australia 🇦🇺
The topography and vegetation sure looks like Southern Nevada to me.
I must say, I find myself watching other mine explorers and thinking. They should watch TVR exploreing mines so they can learn how to do a real exploration that covers everything. Alway look forward to seeing a new mine post. Great work!!!!
what great mine I could go live off grid there !!
"Headed to the mine" escalated quickly... What's next, the mines of Disneyland?
Danke fur das Hochladen sehr interessant
Thank you for the Video and the view in the past.
I imagine how life was in that cabins and under that circumstances.
A hard life with much hard work.
Always the hope to get rich in mind.
But i thing the miners never get rich.
Greetings and i hope you were save from the Storm.
Yours Frank Galetzka
The camera depicted in the Lord Calvert ad is probably from the fifties, although I can't ID it specifically. That may date the ad, or it was chosen strictly as a prop. The dress style of the man in the ad would seem to be about the same time period.
I dated the add itself to 1948.
Thanks for putting in the work!
Interesting intro, Great adventure. Cheers.
Very cool find!
You've come across quite a few cool finds yourself! I've been enjoying your work for years...
@@TVRExploring Thanks!
The generator or a compressor wherever it was I bet it still works
The writing on the clay wall seems like it was done days ago and not As far as the 70's and 80's and I wonder if that beer can has been stuck to the wall since the 70's or 80's as well
Watching from the Philippines
What were they looking for in this mine. It looks like to me they didn't find what they were looking for
Lovely bit of exploring there, glad you got to document most of the working above and below! Could hear you're voice change in the last video, sounded exhausted to say the least, how far was the hike to get there?
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
for april fools day you should do an explore on the mine you worked 😂
Intro was perfect. Definitely think that was Florida.
Yes, absolutely. You have a good eye. Super underappreciated mine exploring destination...
@@TVRExploring At first I thought northern Alaska but then I remembered all the hype regarding Florida's awesome dry mines.
@@MikeOrkid Yes, northern Alaska is a very understandable guess given the landscape...
There are three types of people in the world 🌎 Those who can do math and those who can't. 😂
Guess the nice stuff is still hidden inside first few tunnels but outside was very interesting, very nice old engines wow ,the rest of the mines were caved so time too hit the sack. Or did you have too walk back all the way?
the cut to night at 26:30 was so unusual in that you don't normally film outside at night, that when you turned on your flashlight, I thought "wow, this guy's good, he brought a really nice flashlight for night time!" ... DERP
Just don't get to see the beam outside much so my brain error 404'ed
The oblong nameplate under the pressure gauge on that Schramm compressor said International Harvester. I wonder if they only supplied the clutch assembly or other engine parts. The radiator grille showed definite IH design overtones.
That's a sizable power source for the operations.
that place looks super familiar. ive been to most of the mines in northern nv but i cant place it.
the one shelf magazine said "fall of 42"
nothing important happened just after fall 1942 🫢
a many a miner got drafted to the US Navy.
you gentalmen always put on a great presentation #188 this time
Was there a small animal at 2:47 (upper left of screen)?
Cool old mines
Scaramm & Maerky! 👀 that would make a comfortable fit in my engine collection! 😁😁 Great job guy's. I missed the insignia on your right upper arm? May I ask what that was?
At 29:49 there's a date on upper right of Saturday Evening Post page, says March but can't read rest of date.
Looks to me like 1948
That is one big ass compressor! I wonder where they got the creosotted telephone poles to use as timberset bracing.
There was a date on the picture of the building above the "cowboy scene" in the cabin at the end. It said Saturday Evening post, I think March. I couldn't make out the day and year on UA-cam, but maybe your original footage will show it clearer.
Still can't figure out how they decided/knew where to go/dig into the mountain to find what they were looking for. I get a lot of it is finding a vein and following. But some of it looks like"let's dig in and see if we can find it" kind of scenario
Back in the day, they pretty much just had to guess where to dig based on the surrounding geology.
I question the same things. Especially with limited technology in the 1800s.
Those old timers had a Gift!
Not often by digging just anywhere. They sometimes found mineralized outcroppings at the surface, or exposed weathered veins. Fault gouge zones, etc. Quartz streamers in bedrock. I see them at the river in smoothly eroded bedrock all the time. They also found quartz "float" chunks which would work it's way down from higher up the mountain due to erosion. Broken off chunks in skree slopes, gulches or creeks, etc. Could be any mineral... not just quartz. Was a good indicator of possible gold nearby with it. There's also some plants that like to grow in heavily mineralized soil.
I totally enjoy your videos !! Would it be possible for you to identify to us what kind of minerals you see instead of saying, obviously mineralization ??
29:48 Date at top right of page from Saturday Evening Post
Cool! Another adventure! Pull top bud can stuck on the wall, that was a first! Glad to see that it has not been vandalized, striped and BLM'd.
When the ground got really bad you said there was a lot of sparkles and you do not know if the camera was picking it up well it picked up quite a bit of it just wanted you to know
There are two kinds of people in this world- Sasquatch denialists and those who have seen Bigfoot.
Some trigger happy hunter would have killed one by now if they actually existed.
Great video! What was up with the military 'escort'? Looked like a Mexican flag on his right arm as well.
I thought it looked like a mex flag but looks like an American
If you pause it the flag is Red White Green with a Yellow Sun center, so kurdish flag. USA special forces have worn this flag before and it pissed Turkey off so they dont really do it anymore. Suppose you can get away with it though if you work near groom lake and usually arent on video camera lol.
Catalog said Fall 1947
😂😂😂 I got a kick outta "compressor is technically an engine ". Kinda true though, but I think most mechanics would tell you that it’s the other way round. An engine is basically a compressor. 😂😂😂 "only neck deep"😂😂😂
Many of the early portable compressors were an inline six cylinder engine in which three of the cylinders were powered, and the other three were for compression. Some were on truck chassis and you could drive them around.
@@kylerayk The weirdest ones were LeRoi Tractairs. As the name would suggest, they're tractors with two of the six cylinders used to produce compressed air. I accidentally found one outside Hillsboro, New Mexico several years ago while trying to buy a Wagner LHD. That entire lot of equipment was junk that had been stripped for parts 30 years ago, I left empty-handed but with some cool pictures.
Weird the generator has an electrical meter
Thats an old pull tab beer can havent seen those since the 80s
I guess you can never have too much firepower when mine exploring, they must have seen the reports of the Apache war party in the area.
Dangerous cave
Who was your 'escort' and WHY did you need them? You in the U.S.A. ?
Mexico 🇲🇽. I believe
@@jasonwoodruff9270 looked like an Iranian flag, definitely not Pineland.
@@dougmate2378 oh I bet you’re right. Title after I read it says Nevada. But the guys share created a mystery.
The title of the video says “Nevada Desert”. Maybe near a military base or something.
Someone thinks they're a commando!
Can I play army with you guys? 😃
Schramm . American /Australian machinery manufacturer including mobile compressors.
Bro why are you kitted out for Bosnia
Area 51 ?? Or what the soldiers doing ?
Tajikistan military?
are you doing a mine survey for someone in that country, With some work that mine could be working with not much work it seems. Mainly rock fall and water build up that covering really good rails with also an air compressor engine and tanks that should be good with abit of maintenance. escort guy flag looks like Kurdistan mainly or Tajikistan. definitely not Nevada
Tajikistan military escort??
29:48 there's a date!
I miss Mr. McBride.
@@michaelcoker3197 I’ve wondered whatever happened to him, also. He and our host seemed like a pair of detectives, like the old Dragnet TV series.
Fall of 1947 28:20
why the u.s. soldier at the beginning, was you on government property?
👍👍👍❤️🇸🇪
armed escort? the mine must be on army property
Was that Mexican military?
Sorry but why so much rat pee and droppings? Like what would they be eating? Not hard to tell I’ve never been in a mine plus I live in Alberta, Canada which is rat free!
Nope. Nothing sketchy about a man in full tactical gear and heavily armed, escorting you out to a remote area in the desert.
Who is the pretend soldier?
Not a pretend soldier at all. A very real one with a lot of combat experience...
@@TVRExploring So why was he there? And regular Army aren't allowed facial hair, only special forces OR civilian contractors.
@@winstonsmith478 Take a closer look at the patch on his arm...
What the intro 😂justin u do some naughty things on occasions 🫡
Those bags could have gold in them